Conductive Coded Ink Tags for Gesture-Activated Gaming
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current gaming environments face challenges in providing an attractive and easy-to-use interface for users, particularly in casinos, where traditional methods like magstripe cards require dedicated readers, increasing costs and limiting user experience.
Innovation Solution
The use of tags with conductive, coded ink that can be read by touch-capable interfaces, allowing for gesture-based activation and eliminating the need for additional readers, enabling anonymous or personalized gaming experiences without requiring personal information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If traditional magstripe cards and dedicated readers are used, then user identification and data reading are achieved, but hardware costs increase and device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent replaces mechanical/magnetic reading systems (magstripe readers) with a touch-capable interface that uses capacitive sensing to read conductive ink patterns directly through the display screen. This eliminates the need for separate magnetic reading hardware while maintaining reliable user identification.
Solution Approach 2:
The touch-capable interface serves multiple functions: it displays game information, accepts user gestures, and reads conductive ink tags simultaneously. This multi-functionality eliminates the need for dedicated magstripe readers, reducing hardware complexity while maintaining identification reliability.
2Adaptability or versatility
If additional dedicated readers are incorporated, then data reading capability is improved, but device complexity and cost increase
Solution Approach 1:
The touch-capable interface is designed to perform multiple functions including displaying game information, detecting user gestures, and reading conductive ink tags. This universal interface eliminates the need for separate dedicated readers, maintaining data reading capability while reducing hardware complexity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent merges the data reading function into the existing touch-capable interface by using conductive ink patterns that can be detected through the display screen. This combines multiple functions into a single system, reducing the need for additional hardware components.
3Ease of operation
If conductive ink tags with gesture recognition are used, then user interaction is enhanced and hardware costs are reduced, but measurement precision requirements increase
Solution Approach 1:
The conductive ink pattern on the tag serves as an intermediary that translates user gestures into detectable electrical signals. The capacitive coupling between the user's finger and the conductive ink allows the system to detect gesture patterns with high precision through the touch-capable interface.
Solution Approach 2:
The system detects changes in electrical parameters (capacitance, conductance) when users perform gestures near or on the tag. By monitoring these parameter changes, the system can precisely distinguish between different gesture types while maintaining ease of operation.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
This solution enhances user interaction by allowing seamless data reading and game feature activation, reducing hardware costs, and providing anonymous or personalized gaming experiences across multiple devices and games, while maintaining user anonymity and privacy.
Implementation Method 1
tags having conductive, coded ink... readable by a touch-capable user interface
Data Source
AI summary
The present disclosure relates generally to systems, methods, and devices that enable interactions between a tag having conductive, coded ink and a gaming environment. As an example, a method is disclosed that includes providing a tag with an encoded physical medium that is readable by a touch-capable user interface, determining that the tag has been read by a touch-capable user interface of a gaming device in combination with detecting a gesture of the user at the touch-capable user interface of the gaming device, enabling the gaming device to provide a predetermined game feature in response to determining that the tag has been read by the touch-capable user interface of the gaming device in combination with detecting the gesture of the user at the touch-capable user interface of the gaming device, and updating an electronic record associated with the tag to indicate that the predetermined game feature has been enabled.